Civil War hero Robert Smalls could one day stand just outside the Statehouse visitors’ entrance, clad in the three-piece suit he would have worn while serving in Congress, a legislative panel decided Wednesday.

Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he was elected to the state Legislature and Congress.

The memorial to Civil War hero Robert Smalls is set to be erected on the Statehouse grounds. Design and location set. Now, they just need a way to pay for it.

A bipartisan panel of South Carolina lawmakers chose a visible area close to the Statehouse visitor's entrance for the location of the future monument to Robert Smalls.

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist

State lawmakers are preparing for a new legislative session, and one of their top priorities involves South Carolina’s private school voucher program.